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...going to meet my responsibility to protect the national security of the United States insofar as our secrets are concerned." If negotiations with the North Vietnamese had not been protected by secrecy, he said bluntly, "You men would still be in Hanoi rather than Washington today." Then, assailing Daniel Ellsberg (though not by name) for releasing the secret Pentagon history of the Viet Nam War, he added...
...national security operations" refer to the FBI's wiretapping of Administration officials and newsmen and to the covert operations of the leak-plugging White House "plumbers"?including their burglarizing of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist?it is true that these acts have been exposed...
Nixon's approval of such crimes, presumably in a higher interest, sheds some light on the bag job on Ellsberg's psychiatrist. The plumbers who carried out that burglary had ample reason to believe that Nixon would not object...
...papers were far more of an embarrassment to the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, because they chronicled their actions in Viet Nam, than a hindrance to Nixon's foreign-policy initiatives. Not even the Daniel Ellsberg trial produced evidence of such damage...
Which was not what Daniel Ellsberg, the Berrigan brothers, Jane Fonda, the black militants, welfare chiselers and the campus radicals and George S. McGovern desired. In that mood it was possible to justify means of opposition to the hostile encroachment of hated perceptions which under ordinary circumstances might be avoided." Quarreling with his own paper's critical stance on Watergate, Portland Oregonian Publisher Robert C. Notson painted past antiwar demonstrations as an apocalyptic threat to the country and the President's safety. "This then," Notson wrote, "was the context" for the Watergate bugging...